School: Barrow (roll number 11850)
- Location:
- Barrow, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Ó hUallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 123
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- (1) A stick standing in the bed half green, half red, any lady in the land couldn't take it in her hand.
Answer A Carrot
(2) Tis here, 'tis there, 'tis every where, it stands in the castle garden, it takes a bit as big as a horse, and after all it doesn't eat the grass.
Answer A scythe
(3) The more you take from it the bigger it gets
Answer A grave
(4) Where did the cock crow that all the world heard him.
Answer In Noah's ark
(5) 'Tis red and 'tis blue and tis sparkling green.
Answer: The rainbow
(6) What is the oldest tree in the wood.
Answer The elder tree
(7) As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, and all the men in Kerry would not fill it up
Answer A well
(8) What goes all round the wood and never goes into it.
Answer The bark of a tree
(9) A humpty backed father a hollowed back mother, three dirty children all like one another.
Answer: A three legged-post(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nioclás Ó Connaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barrow, Co. Kerry
